I’m very frustrated with Windows XP right now. I have a desktop computer with XP pro (which has a printer connected to it via usb), a laptop with XP Home, and a d-link wireless router. My connection to the internet from both computers works fine. I’ve followed all the correct steps to set up my shares on my main networked computer, including the printer, but I can’t even ping my main computer with my laptop. I am able to ping from my main computer to my laptop, and also see a shared folder on the laptop.
I even set a static IP address using the router admin software for the main computer, but I still can’t ping it from my laptop. I turned off Microsoft’s Internet firewall on the “local area connection” on my main computer and it still doesn’t work.
Any other suggestions? I originally wanted to be able to print from my laptop over the wireless connection to the printer attached to the desktop. Thanks in advance.
Did you actually set up a network (MSHOME is the default office name)? I see that you say you did everything to set up sharing, but not seeing any mention of actually creating a network…
The wizard for doing so is under My Network Places, and you’d run it on both machines.
This really does sound a mis-set workgroups issue. I think you may need t re-check how you a have named your workgroups on both computers. Make sure they are both the same case (upper or lower) on both PCs.
I had the same issue as of yesterday. I re-ran the wizard on the lap top and now it sees the network. I can transfer files from it to the network, but I cannot do so from a machine on the wired network to the laptop.
I don’t have wireless so I can’t help 100% if it’s some wireless quirk, but I can help on the networking.
Disable the firewalls for a minute on both computers, try to connect to the desktop. Set the firewalls back on.
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The workgroup needs to be exactly the same name on both computers.
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You need to have some folder shared, or it will be networked and you won’t see it.
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For later remember that the printer needs to be maked to share it also.
Run the network wizard on the desktop and make the floppy set up disk for other computers.
Use it on the laptop to configure it.
The internet connection works like it should in the configuration your using. The modem is a different IP than the two computers, your not using the desktop to share internet and files with the laptop.
After using the network setup disk you made are you connected to the desktop?
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There is a wireless utility that may need to be run. I haven’t used it. Run it.
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Last bit of help here. The bridge conections might need to be run. I don’t think it should need to be, but it may.
Go to a command prompt (start -> accessories -> command prompt). Type “ipconfig” (without the quotes) to find out your computer’s IP address. Do the same on the other computer. Now type “ping 192.168.0.1” replacing the 192.168.0.1 part with the actual IP address of the other computer (not the one you are typing on). If the computers can’t ping each other, the problem is in your router setup.
If they can ping each other, then check that each computer has a unique name (they can’t have the same name) and that they are in the same workgroup. If they are, then disable the firewalls like Harmonious Discord recommended and see if the comptuers can “see” each other.
Let’s say for example your two computers are named FRED and BARNEY.
FRED’s IP address is 192.168.0.1 and BARNEY’s IP address is 192.168.0.2.
From FRED, click on start -> my computer, which will bring up an explorer screen showing the stuff on fred. Type “\BARNEY” in the address line at the top of the window. If that doesn’t work, type “\192.168.0.2” in the address line. If BARNEY’s share information comes up (which may be blank if you haven’t shared anything on BARNEY) then something is wrong with the name resolution on your network.
If they can ping, but \(computer name) and \(ip address) both don’t work, then either the sharing is totally hosed on one of the computers or the router is filtering off certain types of messages. Firewalls can also filter off these messages which is why you need to try these tests with the firewalls disabled.
Go under network settings, and check that both computers are using TCP/IP (they should be if they can connect to th internet), and that both computers have Client for Microsoft Networks and Microsoft File and Print Sharing enabled.
Once you get the shares to work, you can try re-enabling the firewalls. You may need to fiddle with your firewall settings to get the computers to talk to each other.
I’m going to doublecheck to see if I’ve implemented all of the instructions above, but I’m pretty sure I’ve turned off the firewall.
How do you explain the fact that I can “ping” my laptop from my desktop but I can’t “ping” my desktop from the laptop?
Also, the workgroups are all the same - I can see the “name” of my desktop when I try to browse network places from my laptop, but
ame doesn’t work - because there’s no share available to be seen even though I’ve turned on sharing on the desktop.
Isn’t it odd that I can see the name of the desktop on the workgroup but I can’t ping it?